59 m. ago ‘I didn’t start out wanting to see kids’: are porn algorithms feeding a generation of paedophiles – or creating one?

More than 850 men a month are arrested for online child abuse offences in England and Wales. They come from every walk of life: teachers, police officers, doctors, TV presenters. And the numbers are rising every year. How did this happen?Andy was enjoying a weekend away with his wife when it happened. “My neighbour phoned me and said, ‘The police are in your house. They’re looking for you.’” He didn’t need to wonder why. “You know. You know the reason. I was petrified when I got that call. It wasn’t just the thought of other people knowing what I had done; I also had to face myself, and that is a sick feeling – it is guilt, shame.”Andy had been watching and sharing images of children being sexually abused for several months before the police appeared at his door. He tried at first to keep it from his wife: “I was afraid she would ask me to leave. I wouldn’t have blamed her if she had.” Continue reading...

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59 m. ago ‘My father’s death saved my life’: director Steve McQueen on grief, gratitude and living with cancer

After his dad died at 67, the 12 Years a Slave film-maker knew it was only a matter of time before he would get prostate cancer, too. The disease kills 12,000 men a year in the UK – a disproportionate number of them black. Now, in a bid to save lives, he is speaking out about his own diagnosis, alongside the doctors who successfully treated himSteve McQueen felt relieved when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. He had no symptoms, was perfectly fit, at the peak of his game. Yet the Oscar-winning film-maker and artist believed it was inevitable. After all, his father had died from it, and he is a black man. The statistics speak for ­themselves. They are as overwhelming as they are bleak. One in eight men will get prostate c­ancer. They are two and a half times more likely to get it if their father or brother had it. They’re twice as likely to get it if they’re black – and they’re two and a half times more likely to die from it, too.McQueen is here today with his urology specialist...

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60 m. ago Boxing tonight: TV channel, live stream, ring walk times and fight card

Joe Joyce plans on lighting up Filip Hrgovic when the two heavyweights clash at Manchester's Co-Op Live on Saturday evening - headlining an action-packed 'Heavy Impact' card from Queensberry

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76 m. ago Discover woodland discos and pink 18th century palaces on one of Europe's most beautiful walks

Reporter Miranda Comerasamy enjoyed a hiking festival in the Algarve, Portugal, and found the myriad of themed walks and destinations to be a great workout for the soul

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1 hour ago Blind date in Cologne: ‘He walked me to my car. Unfortunately, I had parked very close by’

Monique, 50, who works for the UN, meets Ian, 52, an English teacherWhat were you hoping for?To find a nice connection with someone like-minded and with a romantic touch – it is a date after all! Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Tim Dowling: our garden is identical to next door’s – only with added weeds

The privet hedge has been uprooted and the two front gardens have become one – revealing a stark contrastA tall hedge – a privet – marked the boundary between our front garden and our neighbour Marianne’s. The hedge afforded both a measure of privacy and an illustrative contrast in maintenance regimes: Marianne’s side is always neat and straight; ours shaggy and bulging into the walkway.A couple of years ago the hedge started to die. At first it was easy to ignore, to hope that the remaining greenery would spread into the bare spots. But it got worse, not better. The time came for a difficult conversation with Marianne. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Teddy Swims: ‘If I’d had this success two years earlier, I’d have put it straight to my liver and right up my nose’

The Grammy-nominated artist is one of the world’s hottest new stars – and he also knows how to walk a red carpet. He talks to Roisin O’Connor about learning to cope with fame, why he prefers the Brit Awards and how he reckons God is definitely a woman

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2 h. ago Heartbroken parents of boy, 14, say the way he died 'will haunt us until our dying breaths'

Christopher Arnett was just 14-years-old when he was fatally struck by a car as he crossed a road - his parents have issued an emotional statement following the sentencing of the driver

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2 h. ago Former Washington archbishop Theodore McCarrick, defrocked over abuse allegations, dies aged 94

Most senior American prelate in Catholic church to face accusations of sexual abuse died in state of MissouriThe first cardinal to be defrocked by the Pope over allegations of sexual abuse has died in the United States, a senior US churchman said on Friday.Theodore McCarrick, the former archbishop of Washington and the most senior American prelate in the Catholic church to face claims of abuse, died in the state of Missouri aged 94, the New York Times reported, citing a Vatican statement. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Boy, 9, dies after being swept away by floodwater while walking to bus stop

Gabriel Andrews' body was found half a mile from where he was caught in the rising water in Hickory Hills, Kentucky, at around 6.30am this morning

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7 h. ago 2 US Border Patrol officers are charged with taking bribes to wave in people without documents

Two U.S. border inspectors have been charged with taking thousands of dollars in bribes to wave people into the country without showing documents

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8 h. ago The 1% Club contestant misses out on £10,000 jackpot after taking a risky gamble on final question

Player Brett made his way through the trivia game easily but on the last round, he chose to take a risky gamble instead of walking away with the prize.

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8 h. ago Dad electrocuted to death immediately after escaping horror car crash

Nathan Merritt, aged 27, from Hendricks County in Indiana, tragically died after his car drove into power lines which had come down during a tornado and the vehicle was found in flames

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9 h. ago Filmmaker uses AI to 'bring his late mum back to life' starring her in lead role

Tony Cane-Honeysett, 69, a filmmaker, has created a documentary about his mum, who died nine years ago, by using an unpublished book she wrote and her own artificially generated voice

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9 h. ago Schoolboy, 9, dies after being swept away in floodwater while walking to bus stop

The body of Gabriel Andrews, aged nine, has been found after he was swept away in floodwater as he walked to a school bus stop this morning in Kentucky, which is being hit by extreme weather

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10 h. ago Rod Stewart's family 'heartbroken' as beloved relative dies aged 38

Sir Rod Stewart's daughter-in-law Nicole has shared the devastating news that her older sister Christina has passed away, leading to an outpouring of support from the family

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10 h. ago Xena and Hercules actor Robert Trebor dies as heartbroken wife shares cause of death

Robert Trebor, who starred in Xena: Warrior Princess and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, has sadly died at the age of 71 and tributes have been flooding in from fans

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10 h. ago Trump gives TikTok deal extension after China walked away from negotiations due to tariffs

Without a deal, TikTok would go dark in the United States on Saturday for more than 170 million users

Economics

11 h. ago Disgraced former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has died at age 94

Theodore McCarrick, a once-powerful Catholic cardinal who was defrocked by Pope Francis in 2019 after a Vatican investigation determined he sexually molested adults and children, has died

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12 h. ago Dramatic pictures show roof ripped off bus carrying dozens of schoolchildren after crash with bridge

Scores of schoolchildren were said to have been left 'traumatised' with 'cuts and bruises' after a bus crashed into a low bridge in Birkenhead, Wirral, on Friday afternoon.

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